Pump Hall Basement driver picking out concrete walls streaked

picking out concrete walls streaked with decay and a ceiling threaded with pipes and conduits that once served a working industrial plant

rising through rust and grime to reveal the scale of its four Babcock and Wilcox boilers

as Yubari's coal industry finished its long decline

roof long gone

the plastic and metal long gone quiet

Pump Hall Basement driver picking out concrete walls streakedStanding water pools across the concrete floor of the pump hall basement at West Ryde Pumping Station, where derelict machinery stands silent beneath peeling paint and shadows. This sub basement level once supported the engine house that, by 1982, had become the largest domestic water pumping station in Australia. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station series.